A new framework for uncertainty sampling: Exploiting uncertain and positive-certain examples in similarity-based text classification

International Conference on Information Technology: Coding Computing, ITCC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 474-479

  Lee, Kang H ^a   Kang, Byeong H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN LABELING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; UNCERTAINTY SAMPLING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SAMPLING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 3042555465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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